Bingo
The bingo (from English bingo) is a game of chance that consists of a drum with a certain number of numbered balls inside. Players play cards with random numbers written on them, within the corresponding range. An announcer is taking balls out of the bass drum, announcing the numbers out loud. If a player has that number on his card, he crosses it off, and the game continues like this until someone manages to mark all the numbers on his card.
There are several theories about when this activity began, but most of them date it back to the 16th century. It is a very popular game all over the world of which there are two typical varieties, which are the 90-ball game and the 75-ball game.
History of Bingo
Some theories date the origin of this popular game of chance back to the time of Roman culture. Others relate it to ancient Italy in the XVI century, but what is really certain is that it constitutes one of the first forms of gambling popular.
The known history of this game (not accepted by all historians) dates back to the time of the barbarians and the potentates who collected the famous taxes from different villages, towns, among other classes of society in remote times.
The game in general consisted of integrating in a container several balls with numbers that represented different villages of the different powers and based on the hits the knights and soldiers made the collections of gold, silver, minerals, jewels and others objects of value as compensation and retribution for their luck in being chosen, on several occasions the values acquired were for the use of constructions and on other occasions they used them to feed large masses of armies and among others to combat conflicts and conquests.
Over the years and due to new norms associated with society and laws promulgated by great potentates such as the Romans, these games that were previously used to collect money and wealth began to be used to provide fun to the different visitors and explorers of the world in search of business and based on this the ideas that were created were based on providing fun with games, dances, women and prestigious classes with other disciplines such as dice, cards, and other games that now amuse millions of players and passionate bettors in the world.
In contrast, numerous historians and specialists affirm that the origin of this custom is the Italian lottery, when the kingdoms of Italy were united in 1530. The widely accepted hypothesis affirms that the predecessor of the popular game is “Il Giuoco del Lotto d`Italia”, a national lottery that was played weekly and has extended in time to the present date. Today, it is an essential component of the country's budget, generating more than $75 million in current revenue. "Il Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia" is played every Saturday in this country.
The operational closeness of both games is manifested in the elements involved in their development. In both cases, the organizer must have numbered balls, a bolillero or tombola and numbered cards. The social game of bingo seems to be an evolution of this game that has spread for centuries in the region of Italy.
In 1770, this game came to the attention of the French, who called it Le Lotto, and it was established with the rules that are still followed today. They were the first to play with bingo cards, chips and to call out the numbers. At this time, it was only played by the people of the high aristocracy. The prizes were not organized in the current way but were extended in numerous possibilities of recognition for winning. Different typical elements of the mentioned years constituted the prizes.
Bingo spread rapidly throughout Europe in the 1800s. Educational bingo games became popular. In 1850 a bingo game was designed in Germany to teach children the multiplication tables, in addition to other educational bingo games such as "spelling bingo", "animal bingo", "historical bingo". These bingos were designed to provide children ages 3-6 with a bit of fun while also teaching them to sing and recognize numbers.
After spreading throughout Europe the game began to be released in North America. At first the game became popular at village fairs and festivals. It consisted of an organizer taking numbered discs out of a cigar box while players marked the numbers on their cards by placing beans on them and shouting "beano" if they won.
During a visit to the Atlanta carnival in 1929, Edwin Lowe, a New York toy salesman, discovered the Beano. Lowe noted the great excitement the players were feeling. He tried to play a Beano game that same night, but couldn't get a seat. The players were very hooked, and when the man running Beano's game tried to shut down the stall, the players simply refused to stop playing. Finally, at 3 a.m., the story goes, the organizer made way for Lowe. Returning to New York, Lowe bought some beans, and all the other things necessary to make the game. He invited some friends over to his apartment to test his new game. Before he knew it, his friends were playing Beano with the same excitement and fervor as the ones he had seen at the carnival. During a game, Lowe studied the behavior of a player who was about to win. He just needed one more number to complete his card, but he got more and more nervous when he saw that his number didn't come up. Finally, when he managed to cover all the numbers from him, he shouted out of excitement: "B-B-B-BINGO!" instead of Beano. This is what explains his name today.
Once it became known in North America, it quickly spread to the rest of the world.
A priest from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is the man responsible for first introducing bingo as a fundraiser for the church. A member of the congregation suggested using the game in order to get money for maintenance. It was then that the original bingo game, which only offered 24 unique card variants, expanded. As more and more church members were taking part in the bingo game, more cards were given out. The priests soon realized that many players won the same game, so they looked for new ways to make the number combinations unique.
To do this, they enlisted the help of Lowe, who hired a Columbia University math professor named Carl Leffler to help him increase the number of combinations on the bingo cards. By 1930, Leffler had already created more than 6,000 bingo cards with unique combinations (it is said that after this Leffler went crazy).
This new form of bingo established the game as a way to raise funds. By 1934, there were already more than 10,000 weekly bingo halls in operation throughout North America. From churches to American Indian reservations, they were all bingo players spending $90 million weekly on bingo in North America alone.
In 1977 bingo was authorized in Spain. A new bingo system different from the one that prevailed at that time was invented: the 90-number bingo. In the 1980s there was a veritable “modern bingo” fever when slot machines and gaming halls entered the scene.
In 1992 there were 604 bingo halls in Spain, according to the first known official data. Today there are a variety of internet games.
Spanish legislation
National Rules Affecting Bingo
Gambling had been banned in Spain since 1922, so any type of game was only done in the private sphere or illegally.
After the end of the dictatorship and the transition to democracy, the idea of regulating and legalizing gambling began to be considered, for them a Royal-Decree was carried out, regulating criminal, administrative and fiscal aspects of the games of luck, bets or chance and bets. It is the so-called ROYAL DECREE-LAW 16/1977 of February 25. After the approval of this law, the first bingo halls began to emerge in Spain.
In addition, there are other laws at the national level that affect bingo halls in one way or another in competitions such as: Intellectual Property, Local Treasuries, Defense of Competition, Mercantile Legislation, Law on Companies, Tax on Economic Activities, Unfair Competition, Protection of Citizen Security, transfer of powers to the autonomous communities, Occupational Risks, Basic Building Regulations, Prohibited Files, etc.
Legislations of the different autonomous communities
Based on national regulations, each autonomous community draws up its own regulations that regulate the world of gambling in all its areas:
- Homologation.
- Transfers.
- Games and bets.
- Game catalogues.
- Prohibition of access.
- Gaming machines.
- Specific to bingo.
- Public shows.
- Organizational.
- Taxes.
How do you play bingo?
The bingo game consists of a drum with numbered balls, cards with printed random numbers and markers or chips to cross out or cover these. A game consists of extracting the balls from the bass drum at random and singing their respective numbering. The players, provided with cards, will cross out the number when it is called by the cashier (person who is in charge of extracting the balls). When completing a horizontal line on a card, the player must call "line" and will take a small percentage of the total collected from the sale of the cartons. When a player manages to cross out all the numbers on his card, he will have to shout & # 34; bingo & # 34; and will become the winner of the game, thus taking the highest percentage of the collection as a prize.
Elements
In the game of bingo, some essential elements are needed, such as a bolillero or bass drum, the balls or number balls, cardboard and a table space.
The ease with which a bingo game can be organized is one of the factors that has motivated the extension of this entertainment of chance.
Extracting machines
The bass drum, or bolillero, is made up of two transparent hemispherical domes that are highly resistant to blows, since they have to withstand the impact of the balls.
The domes are 50x50 cm. The way the bolillero rotates can vary, it can be moved by a handle, manually, or by means of an electric motor that makes it rotate.
Once one of the balls has been separated, say its number and continue mixing. If of the manual bolillero, while the separated bolilla is removed, the mixing stops. with the bolillero electric mixing never stops because the ball slides through a channel.
In both cases, after the number is announced, the players must mark the matches on all the bingo cards they own. This job can be overwhelming if you have more cards than you can handle, so we recommend playing with no more than three or four cards[by whom?]. The time between balls is very short.
Balls
Bingo balls have the following special characteristics:
Material: cellulose nitrate
Printed in 10 (ten) positions
Colours: black, blue, green, red and orange, white background
Diameter: 38.5mm (+/ 0.5mm)
Weight: 2.5g (+/ 0.5g)
Cartons
The cards are one of the fundamental pieces to be able to play Bingo. Said cards are made of suitable material to make it easier for them to be marked by the players, and they are valid exclusively for a single game. The cards belong to series that contain a number of not less than 96,000 different cards.
On the front of each card is the series to which it belongs, range of number of cards within each series assigned to the establishment, order number and number of cards that make up the series. On the back are the taxes to be paid, as well as an extract of the main rules of the game. Likewise, the warning that the division of the two cartons of the sales unit, as well as the marks or erasures that prevent the reading of the identifying elements of the cardboard, render it useless for prize purposes.
Manufacturing
The bingo cards are manufactured by the “Royal Casa de la Moneda. National Factory of Currency and Stamp”. Bingo Cards are printed in 4 colors and incorporate numbering. The printing (series) is carried out in coils, by an offset procedure, carrying out the numbering of the cartons at the same time. In each series, 1,944 bingo cards come out, this is due to the manufacturing process (54 sheets of 36 cards each), apart from this criterion of 1,944 cards, there is also that of 3,888 (multiple of 1944). These two criteria are used in all bingo halls.
The series are delivered in strips of 6 cartons arranged vertically and each strip consists of the 90 numbers involved in the game of bingo. Guides and emblems of recreational machines are produced at the request of the various autonomous communities, incorporating different security elements both in the support and in the printing. The concern is the security that the cartons cannot be counterfeited or tampered with. For this reason, the FNMT-RCM offers full security through the use of watermarked paper, invisible inks and other security elements, which allow any counterfeit to be distinguished instantly.
The cardboard is protected in such a way that any attempt to manipulate it will damage it irreparably. The cards vary in format depending on the type of bingo in which they are going to be used, so we have different characteristics depending on whether it is simultaneous bingo, online bingo, bingo games or classic bingo in hall.
Professional Categories
Head of Room: will exercise the direction and general control of the operation of the room, adopting the decisions related to the progress of the different operations in accordance with the technical norms of bingo and adapting the rhythm of those in consideration of the influx of public, cardboard, will take care of the proper functioning of all devices, facilities and services; will exercise the hierarchy over all the personnel at the service of the room; he will be responsible for the proper functioning of the specific accounting of the game, as well as the possession and custody of the room itself, the precise authorizations for its operation and the documentation related to the personnel. Table Manager: will be responsible for checking the balls and cards; It will keep the accounting of the sold cartons for each raffle; it will determine the line or bingo prizes respectively, it will check the winning cards, informing the players of all this, it will be responsible for the record book and will keep control of the "stock" of cards per game. He will individually respond to any requests for information or claims made by the players and will record all of this, as well as any incidents that occur, in the minutes.
Announcer-Seller: will carry out the direct sale of the cards and collect the amount, which he will deliver together with the remaining cards to the Cashier; He will remove from the table, before carrying out the sale of the new cards, those used by the players in the previous play and will review the series within his working day. In his turn as Announcer, he will start the machine when the play starts, he will read the number of the ball aloud according to the starting order; will turn off the machine at the end of the game and will pay the players the line and bingo amounts, counting their amount at the time of payment, to facilitate the payment of the prizes during the sale of tickets for the next game and provided that the organization of the work permits, this task may be carried out by any other professional category defined in this article. When he performs the work of locution he will not carry out the function of selling cards, although he may collaborate in other functions within the room.
Admission and Control: will be in charge of controlling the entry of players into the game room, verifying that the card corresponds to the person presenting it, and denying entry to people who were prohibited from entering it, notifying to the Head of Room of the incidents. It will also have the mission of keeping the visitor file and updating it.
Auxiliary Services: these categories: administration, valets, porters, security guards and cleaning staff, etc., are not included among the Bingo techniques and will carry out the functions of their specialties, without requiring an identification card. game or any government permit.
There are two Professional Groups that encompass the specific Categories of the Bingo game:
Gaming Technicians Group: which integrates the Professional Categories of Room Manager, Table Manager and Cashier. Room Technicians Group: made up of the Professional Categories of announcer-Salesperson and Admission-Control.
Types of bingo around the world
The bingo game has elements that are conducive to its composition, one of them It's the cardboard. There are different types and classes of cards to develop a bingo game. The bingo cards contain boxes with numbers from the lowest to the highest. high and vice versa.
Simultaneous bingo
In simultaneous bingo, 90 numbers are played, from 1 to 90, both included, and simultaneously by players present in different collective gambling halls of money and chance, integrated into a Distribution network.
Thus, the cards are made up of fifteen different numbers between them, made up of 3 rows and 9 columns.
The cartons must comply with the model approved by the corresponding administrative body and that has jurisdiction over gambling matters. These cartons will have the material support adequate to facilitate that they can be marked by the players, being valid exclusively for a game.
Online Bingo
The cardboard in this case is visual and there is no cost of printing the paper. Players from all rooms play the same game simultaneously.
It becomes a fast game and low cost per game. The system used is with a chip card. Within online bingo we have the modality of classic online bingo, online 75 and flash.
Online Electronic Bingo
The shape of the cardboard corresponds to the Spanish classic, 15 numbers out of 90; the only difference is the use of an electronic terminal. The player buys the cards he wants on the computer play and appear on the screen. All terminals connected to the network play the same game.
Bingo 75
It is American Bingo, widely played online. It has a cardboard format and a set of 24 numbers. over 75 (the central box has no number). Based on the realization of figures inside the cardboard can be get different possibilities of bingo prizes (lines, diagonals, crosses, etc.). These figures are called “patterns”, and each game has one or more patterns that pay out. The composition of the cardboard is as follows: column "B" contains the numbers between 1 and 15, in column "I" the numbers from 16 to 30, in the "N" the numbers from 31 to 45, in the "G" from 46 to 60 and finally in the column “O” the numbers from 61 to 75. The patterns for prizes of Bingo, as has been said before, can be of any shape: diagonally, line, crosses, squares, letters... In each game it is specified which pattern gives a prize.
Flash Bingo
Online electronic bingo with “flash” format, 3 numbers out of 15. The draw will consist of extracting 9 balls. The cards used have 3 numbers ranging from number 1 to 15 and each number has a color of 6 possible, in case of completing the card in extraction number 3, the bingo prize It is equivalent to paying the bet placed (0.25 euros per card) for 30, in case of completing the card in extraction number 4, the prize is equivalent to paying the bet made by 15 and so on successively
Cash bingo
Online electronic bingo with a cardboard format of 16 numbers out of 80. Cash Bingo is played on (virtual) cards in which the 16 numbers are represented in four columns of four numbers each. In the first column are the numbers from 1 to 20, and it is red. In the The second column contains the numbers from 21 to 40 and is yellow. In the third column, They place the numbers from 41 to 60, and it is blue. Finally, in the fourth column are the numbers from 61 to 80 and is white.
Bingames
It is the equivalent to the accumulated interconnected bingo modality with multiple prize structures, which is played in a virtual room formed by the distributed terminals in the various rooms, the various players playing completely asynchronously, since their objective of prize is built in a percentage fraction on a general accumulated, and that by the limits that have the structures (of more than 5 categories), the prizes are fixed.
Cardboard is virtual. There is no cost of printing paper. The types of games within Binjuegos are: Bingo 33 and Bingo Keno.
Bingo 33
Classic cardboard format electronic bingo game, 15 numbers out of 90, played on electronic terminals. The player buys a certain number of cards, and then starts drawing a draw of 33 balls. Once the extractions are complete, the number of lines, double lines and bingo obtained by the player. There are additional prizes depending on the extraction number with which the cardboard is completed.
'Bingo Keno
Electronic bingo game that consists of selecting 10 numbers out of 80 possible ones. This selection it can be automatic or manual. Next, the player begins the extraction sequence of a draw of 20 balls, and once the extractions are over, the number of hits obtained is checked. There is a profit plan depending on the number of hits.
Unofficial bingos
They are manufactured for family reunions, entertainment, parties, hotels, clubs, associations... The series are 960 cartons, and are sold in packages of 10 series. These cartons do not need pen because they have tabs. This cardboard model is registered in the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office.
They have a format of 12 × 7 cm, and each package weighs 7 kg. The difference between the two models is in the paper and in the perforations of the tabs, the The first is cardboard and has circular perforations, while the second is cardboard and the perforations make up a rectangle.
Child Elements
Module and computerized panels
They are informative panels that show information related to the prizes.
In the case of classic Spanish bingo, they are panels of 90 numbers, which indicate the numbers drawn from as the announcer sings them.
CM70-80; mainframe
It's the room's game control computer. All bingo elements are managed from it, and includes an extensive poster of messages, reports on statistics, prizes... that serve as help in business management.
Cashier, sale and liquidation of cartons
It is the cash desk manager, an essential tool for a fast and safe sale and liquidation of cartons
Admission and regulations
The admission system controls public access to the gaming hall, respecting the requirements of the Data Protection regulations.
It is available in different versions adapted to the requirements of all Communities Autonomous.
Telebingo
Allows a more effective game to bring information about the game to customers. There is the possibility of putting 1,2 and 3 monitors on tables.
In telebingo you can see the number of cards sold, the price of the card, the prizes (line, bingo, premium and accumulated), the balls that are drawn, the balls that have already been drawn, the last 3 sung and the order of extraction. When the game ends you can put on a television program on the break.
Automatic ball reader
There are different possibilities of automatic locution: from the security mode (which avoids typing errors on the keyboard) and the fully automatic mode (which replaces to the announcer). The latter has the possibility of recording a large number of voices.
Automatic terminals
There are several versions, they are 15”, touch screen and can be wireless and wired. The monitor it is suspended above the table.
There is another type of model where the terminal is wireless, portable, with a 12-hour battery and an 8.5” touch screen.
Types of bingo
There are two main types of bingo, 75 ball bingo and 90 ball bingo. The way to play is the same in both types, but the number of balls in the drum and the cards varies from one to the other.
As the name suggests, in 75 ball bingo there are 75 balls numbered from 1 to 75 in the drum. This type of game is more common in North America. The cards have a total of 24 numbers, divided into 5 columns. The columns are defined by each of the bingo letters, B, I, N, G, O, and in each of them are the numbers within a specific range. In column B there are the numbers that go from 1 to 15, in I they go from 16 to 30, in N from 31 to 45 without a number in the third row, in G from 46 to 60 and finally in the O they go from 61 to 75. In this type of bingo you can win a prize by filling in all the numbers on our card. This is known as bingo or full house. The other way to win a prize playing 75-ball bingo is by being able to mark a certain pre-established figure on our card before starting the game, such as a letter or a symbol, without having to mark all the numbers on the card.
90 ball bingo is played in the most parts of the world. In this version, the drum has 90 balls numbered from 1 to 90. The cards have 15 numbers that you must mark. These numbers are distributed in 3 different rows, with 9 columns each, with a total of 5 numbers per row. Numbers are mixed with blank spaces. Here you can win prizes in 3 different ways, the first one is when you manage to mark all the numbers that exist in any of the 3 lines of a card. This award is called a "line". In some places, the player who manages to mark two lines on his card is also rewarded, but it is not done in all places. Finally, the most important prize is when bingo is called, which consists of having crossed out all the numbers on a card.
Online Bingo
Network bingo or online bingo is a subsection within electronic casino games, and is one of the most requested services among customers, since it has game bonuses, promotions, offers to obtain income cheap, in addition to all those prizes that are already found in traditional bingo. Given the importance of bingo in the market, in recent years, due to the extension of the Internet to all areas of our lives, the appearance of websites where you can play bingo online has spread. It is a variation of the traditional bingo, but with greater privacy and simplicity of play. The virtual system version of this game has become a big draw in the online market.
Operation
Online bingo is regulated internally through secure software systems, which are provided by various software vendors. These companies have extensive experience in the betting sector and in the construction of online bingos, for which extensive results can be obtained. Another important internal aspect for the construction of online bingos are the different affiliate programs that configure these pages. These programs redirect visitors from their pages through banners to online bingos, so a percentage of the player's profits go to affiliates. In this way, the market is potentially expanded, and the gaming and betting sector is a booming field for new investors in the network.
Software providers
Software providers are companies that create virtual systems for development and technological innovation. They are responsible for the online operation of many specific structures. These companies specialize in different sectors, addressing a market with more or less competition. Competition, in most cases is conditioned by the economic profitability and attractiveness of the sector. In particular, the betting sector is a highly profitable sector, although highly exploited, so competition and leadership intention is very high. The capacity for reinvention, technological innovation and new game modalities is a continuous process, which is why it is a highly competent market that is constantly being renewed. This sector is closely linked to affiliate programs, so they potentially broaden your offer and reach. Here are the main software providers, designers of virtual bingo systems on the net: -MAdEX Games Engine -NextGen Gaming -WagerWorks -GreenTube -Entraction -Cyberarts -Net Entertainment - Parlay Entertainment -Chartwell Technology -Playtech -microgaming - Cryptologic- Real Time Gaming -Boss Media - Ongame -888.com -Zitro -virtue fusion -Party Gaming -ZedPlan -Gtech G2 -Degestec Games
Affiliate Programs
An affiliate program is an agreement between a website and a company that sells goods or services over the Internet, whereby a commission is paid to the entity of the website for each sale they make to a customer referred from their page. It is a beneficial system to be able to make sales without having a product to sell. It only acts as an intermediary, always taking advantage of a high level of visits to the page. If the page is new or does not receive the appropriate visits, at least 3000 daily visits, the system is not beneficial for the manager. Benefits are obtained by three methods: - By sales commission. Approximately between 1% and 60% depending on the product and the program. - By clicking on the banner. The commission received is much lower, ranging between 0.01 euros and 0.5 euros. - By referral. The benefit occurs when the referred visitor registers on the linked page. I can range between 1 euro and 5 euros per customer. Currently, there are a wide variety of affiliate programs that cover a large market on the network.
Regulation of online bingo in Spain
Lucrative online games in Spain, as is the case with online bingo, have been legal since May 28, 2011 through publication in the B.O.E. of the Law of Games of Chance 13/201. The first licenses were granted on June 1, 2012. Now anyone can participate online in games of chance, roulette, bingo, poker, betting, etc. with the maximum guarantee that the game is regulated, supervised and controlled by the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling. Also, every operator needs a license. This is a prerequisite for legal online bingo in Spain.
Requirements to play
Some conditions are needed to be able to play online bingo in Spain. Among them, the essential condition of having reached the age of 18 stands out. In addition, when registering, it must be personal, since it is not allowed to play by accessing the credentials of another person. For their part, the operators carry out periodic verifications of the correct use of the accounts. In order to promote responsible gaming, licensed online bingo operators offer their users tools to set their own spending limits as well as the ability to temporarily or permanently deactivate their account.
Statistics
Statistics made from the annual game reports of the Ministry of the Interior of Spain.
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